chilldream

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by chilldream 8y ago
Washington is one of the few states that doesn’t allow employers to pay below minimum wage even to tipped employees. Maybe Seattle is different since its city minimum wage is above the state minimum, but those Seattle waiters aren’t making
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by chilldream 9y ago
It was coined by a judge attempting to justify legal censorship of someone protesting the existence of the draft. https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
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by chilldream 9y ago
I highly recommend his policenauts play through for anyone who reads this site. He talks a lot about the romhacking process (the game had no English version until he helped patch it in) https://lparchive.org/Policenauts&#x2F
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by chilldream 12y ago
The creators sure care if they can make back their development costs or not.
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by chilldream 12y ago
Gambling games are bad for the exact same reasons that grind-based are bad: people play them for the addictive reward mechanisms. If you're not affected by those mechanisms, you're usually left with garbage. Variable rewards are a
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by chilldream 12y ago
> It may be more the dealers themselves with the "casino" turning a blind eye. That strikes me as even less likely. Given that dealers are tipped from winning players, they wouldn't want to cheat in the house's favo
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by chilldream 12y ago
If it's company policy, the employees have plenty of incentive to snitch to gaming boards. I used to hang out with a lot of casino dealers in Washington state and every one of them would sell out their boss that day if they were told
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by chilldream 12y ago
> But if someone choose to go all-in blind pre-flop then they are choosing to play the game as pure gambling and their version of the game would be pure chance. This isn't making the game pure chance; it's just cutting off that
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by chilldream 12y ago
"Game of skill" vs. "game of luck" is not a binary distinction, but the law pretends it is. I think it's definitely closer to the "skill" end of the continuum than the "luck" end though.
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by chilldream 12y ago
Large companies tend to err on the side of taking down more than they legally "have to". I know of YouTube videos that were taken down because of copyright claims that were outright false (that is, the entity making the claim didn
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by chilldream 12y ago
Yeah, and for that matter "fundamentalism" has been associated with certain elements of the Christian right (like biblical literalism) at least since the 90's.
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by chilldream 12y ago
I've lost the link, but something like that actually did happen in the US recently. It surely helped that it was so flagrant and that there was video evidence, but a teacher was arrested for encouraging a bunch of kids to beat up anoth
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by chilldream 12y ago
He didn't say it was like card counting. He said that it exists on a continuum, somewhere that is clearly less legitimate than card counting but not obviously cheating like bringing loaded dice. Your analogy is actually worse; the card
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by chilldream 12y ago
Is this something that doesn't happen in some climates? I've never noticed nor even heard about this "toast sweat" in my life.
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by chilldream 12y ago
They may not even have permission to air what they already have; some of the developers hadn't even signed the contract yet.
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by chilldream 12y ago
If people are getting mad at going back a page by accident, then they are going back a page by accident. It's happened to me, and while I'm still not entirely sure why, I really don't care why. The "Self Destruct"
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by chilldream 12y ago
If anything many people are pushing harder in this direction. For instance, consider the push for mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients even though the places have tried it have discovered that: 1) Almost no one fails them 2) They
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by chilldream 13y ago
I agree with the article, but "There are Starving Kids in Africa" is a stock bad argument
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by chilldream 13y ago
The really funny thing is this is one of her least obvious posts and some people still take the bait every time. I still can't believe that people fell for the stuff about using Node Package Maid over Javascript and deprecating their C
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by chilldream 13y ago
No, Jenn Schiffer is firmly anti-satire: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/2412631958ef
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by chilldream 13y ago
His name is Ken White. And he tweeted this today: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/443809025902129152
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by chilldream 13y ago
MMM is not a lawyer. As an analogy, consider CFAA and other "hacking" related prosecutions where the layman might not be able to tell if a charge is without merit, but a domain expert acting in good faith can.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Doesn't the fact that it's minimax mean that it's "unwinnable with sufficiently bad luck" though? I mean if there's a mistake in the AI it's that it assumes that the game is maliciously picking the worst p
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by chilldream 13y ago
Assuming you mean all fonts everywhere, I got that too. I thought the next website I looked at went through some kind of redesign until I realized that the next two websites I looked at also looked like that.
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by chilldream 13y ago
What the...that tweet is over a year old!
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by chilldream 13y ago
Can't speak for the author's current opinion, but he did voluntarily start a Rails app recently: http://www.discourse.org/faq/#tech
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by chilldream 13y ago
Your argument loses a lot of weight when you consider that since we're talking about stuff on the Internet, most of the examples in OP could just, y'know, link to it . But that wouldn't let them get ad revenue for someone el
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by chilldream 13y ago
Copying entire works (even a blog post counts) is not fair use.
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by chilldream 13y ago
> Just go to plus.google.com/settings and disable everything and be happy Until they add more things that are checked by default like that "let any random yahoo email me" feature.
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by chilldream 13y ago
I can assure you that I still follow the same YouTube channels I was following before and my complaints about the comment system are very well-informed. I will concede that comment threading is somewhat better, and it's nice that peo

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